I explore light, color and human interaction by painting, sculpting and producing interactive installations. My work illustrates the tension of entropy (a falling apart) vs. desire (the energy of convergence). I think it’s useful, if not valuable, to share how I see this attraction. My composition is a dynamic dance of energy’s envy of figure.
Color has been my last decade’s plus obsession. A core intention is to evangelize visual literacy and color grammar by furthering the legacy of the Albers’ Bauhaus color course preserved by Maui color master Dick Nelson. I’m committed to the objective aesthetic of color relationship, and its potency, when recognized in relationship, to “glow” or “clash” (and everything in between) as well as its ability to reveal bias and subjectivity beyond art-- just as color is relative, so is all of perception.
My work is shown and collected internationally.
Based in Oakland and Maui
2021 "Vision Thru Color"
2015-2021: Huedoku, Same Same or Different, Huedoku Pix
Group Exhibitions:
2014: “Bodies & Bamboo”, projection mapping performance, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Maui, Hawaii video
2013: “Escher vs. Sparkle the Unicorn”, projection mapping performance, MACC, HI video
2012: “The Colorbox”, ArT=Mixx, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Hawaii video Haiku, TedxMaui, Maui Film Festival video MFF
2011: “The Colorbox”, interactive projection mapping, Alchemeyez Visionary Arts Congress, Hawaii video
2011: Juried Show, Art Maui, Hawaii
2010: Juried Show, Hui No’eau, Makawao, Juried Show, Art Maui, Hawaii
2009: SOURCE: Interactive Arts Festival, Keanae, Hawaii
2008: SOURCE: Interactive Arts Festival, Keanae, Hawaii
2007: War and Peace, EpOxybOx, Venice, CA: Elan Vital Gallery, Makawao, Hawaii
2006: “Continuum”, Wailuku, Hawaii
2004: “The Cherish Tree” canvas, Emeryville Celebration for the Arts, California
2003: BassCamp Otto Schutt Foundation benefit for kids of Hunters Point, Tree of Thanks (15' canvas, acrylic on found city tree, interactive leaves of gratitude), Space San Francisco, CA
2003: Burning Man: Beyond Belief, “The Cherish Tree” (8' rebar structure with bamboo and prayer flags in 80' wide horizontal space), sacred space manifesting personal desire, “The Black Box” (22 minute documentary), on racial diversity at Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, CA
2003: “The Cherish Tree” altar for closing circle, Health and Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, CA
2001: Fearless Journal: Heather Sullivan, The Art House, San Francisco, California
Solo Exhibitions:
2011: “The Colorbox”, Maui Film Festival, Hawaii
2009: “Vision Thru Color” Visie Door Kleur, Huis Van Mijn Broer, Amsterdam
2004: “Mystical Street Art”, Olympic Circle Sailing Club, Berkeley, California video
2003: “The Complete Body of Work: Gabriel Mott” featuring The Painter and The Poet, Tribute to Gary Payton, and The Cherish Tree (canvas) The Art House, San Francisco, California